Timeline for Name and notation for a binary operation
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| Aug 15, 2013 at 2:32 | comment | added | Joe Silverman | Probably this won't be an issue, but just so you're aware of it, in number theory the notation $p^k\mathbin\parallel n$ is often used to indicate that $p^k$ divides $n$, but $p^{k+1}$ does not divide $n$, i.e., it's a quick way to indicate that $k$ is $\text{ord}_p(n)$, the (normalized) $p$-adic valuation of $n$. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 4:24 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez |
In LaTeX, you should use x\mathbin\parallel y instead of the more obvious x\parallel y, so that you get the spacing of a binary operator as opposed to a relation symbol (You can say \def\hsum{\mathbin\parallel} in your prelude, for example)
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| Jul 2, 2013 at 23:24 | comment | added | JRN | The suggested notation has a lot of potential. | |
| Jul 2, 2013 at 12:40 | comment | added | James Propp | @Joel: Thanks for pointing out that Richard Stanley's suggested notation is already in, er, current use. :-) | |
| Jul 2, 2013 at 2:35 | comment | added | JRN | See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits#Notation | |
| Jul 1, 2013 at 17:17 | vote | accept | James Propp | ||
| Jul 1, 2013 at 17:17 | history | answered | James Propp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |